http://share.triangle.com/node/15055 Comments for "Water for Elephants discussion" en http://share.triangle.com/node/15055 <!-- BeginContext name="blog-teaser" q="(share|communities/*)" --> Mondays, in particular, find me yearning to do nothing more than lead elephants, horses, giraffes to water. We all have escape careers -- and who hasn't dreamed of running away to the circus? Sara Gruen&hellip;<!-- EndContext --> <!-- BeginContext name="blog-front" q="share/blog" --> <p>Mondays, in particular, find me yearning to do nothing more than lead elephants, horses, giraffes to water. We all have escape careers -- and who hasn't dreamed of running away to the circus? Sara Gruen does it, and brings us along with her. (The dream career of one of my grad-school professors was to sit on a dock by a river. And that's it. If somebody needed bait, she might point to a bucket, but she wouldn't scoop out the worms.) </p> <p>A real dream career might be Sara Gruen's crafting of &quot;Water for Elephants&quot; -- spinning a story out of the facts of circus living.</p> <p>How'd she do? I don't want to overdirect you, but you'll find some discussion questions <a href="http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/waterElephantsq.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/water_for_elephants1.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> Pick one, or select a topic of your own. </p><!-- EndContext --> <!-- BeginContext name="blog-front" q="blog" --> <p>Mondays, in particular, find me yearning to do nothing more than lead elephants, horses, giraffes to water. We all have escape careers -- and who hasn't dreamed of running away to the circus? Sara Gruen does it, and brings us along with her. (The dream career of one of my grad-school professors was to sit on a dock by a river. And that's it. If somebody needed bait, she might point to a bucket, but she wouldn't scoop out the worms.) </p> <p>A real dream career might be Sara Gruen's crafting of &quot;Water for Elephants&quot; -- spinning a story out of the facts of circus living.</p> <p>How'd she do? I don't want to overdirect you, but you'll find some discussion questions <a href="http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/waterElephantsq.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/water_for_elephants1.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> Pick one, or select a topic of your own. </p><!-- EndContext --> <!-- BeginContext name="blog-front" q="*" --> <p>Mondays, in particular, find me yearning to do nothing more than lead elephants, horses, giraffes to water. We all have escape careers -- and who hasn't dreamed of running away to the circus? Sara Gruen does it, and brings us along with her. (The dream career of one of my grad-school professors was to sit on a dock by a river. And that's it. If somebody needed bait, she might point to a bucket, but she wouldn't scoop out the worms.) </p> <p>A real dream career might be Sara Gruen's crafting of &quot;Water for Elephants&quot; -- spinning a story out of the facts of circus living.</p> <p>How'd she do? I don't want to overdirect you, but you'll find some discussion questions <a href="http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/waterElephantsq.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/water_for_elephants1.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> Pick one, or select a topic of your own. </p><!-- EndContext --> <p><a href="http://share.triangle.com/node/15055">read more</a></p> http://share.triangle.com/node/15055#comment book club books Entertainment read Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:39:21 -0400 marcysmith 15055 at http://share.triangle.com